Fragments of culture : the everyday of modern Turkey / edited by Deniz Kandiyoti & Ayşe Saktanber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kandiyoti, Deniz.

Saktanber, Ayşe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--Social life and customs.

Turkey.

Manners and customs.

Turkey--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press ; London : I.B. Tauris & Co., 2002.

Summary:

Fragments of Culture explores the evolving modern daily life of Turkey. Through analyses of language, folklore, film, satirical humor, the symbolism of Islamic political mobilization, and the shifting identities of diasporic communities in Turkey and Europe, this book provides a fresh and corrective perspective to the often-skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. In this volume, some of the most innovative scholars of post 1980s Turkey address the complex ways that suburbanization and the growth of a globalized middle class have altered gender and class relations, and how Turkish society is being shaped and redefined through consumption. They also explore the increasingly polarized cultural politics between secularists and Islamists, and the ways that previously repressed Islamic elements have reemerged to complicate the idea of an "authentic" Turkish identity. Contributors examine a range of issues from the adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item, to the media's increased attention in Turkish transsexual lifestyle, to the role of folk dance as a ritualized part of public life. Fragments of Culture shows how attention to the minutiae of daily life can successfully unravel the complexities of a shifting society. This book makes a significant contribution to both modern Turkish studies and the scholarship on cross-cultural perspectives in Middle Eastern studies.

Contents:

Introduction: Reading the Fragments / Deniz Kandiyoti 1

Part I New Axes of Social Differentiation

1 The New Middle Class and the Joys of Suburbia / Sencer Ayata 25

2 The Doorkeeper, the Maid and the Tenant: Troubling Encounters in the Turkish Urban Landscape / Gul Ozyegin 43

3 Encounters at the Counter: Gender and the Shopping Experience / Ayse Durakbasa, Dilek Cindoglu 73

4 Discipline, Success and Stability: The Reproduction of Gender and Class in Turkish Secondary Education / Feride Acar, Ayse Ayata 90

Part II Cultural Production and the Production of Culture

5 Playing Games with Names / Serif Mardin 115

6 'I Dance Folklore' / Arzu Ozturkmen 128

7 The Film Does not End with an Ecstatic Kiss / Secil Buker 147

8 Global Consumerism, Sexuality as Public Spectacle, and the Cultural Remapping of Istanbul in the 1990s / Ayse Oncu 171

9 The Islamist Paradox / Jenny B. White 191

Part III Shifting Identities at Home and Abroad

10 The Market for Identities: Secularism, Islamism, Commodities / Yael Navaro-Yashin 221

11 'We Pray Like You Have Fun': New Islamic Youth in Turkey between Intellectualism and Popular Culture / Ayse Saktanber 254

12 Pink Card Blues: Trouble and Strife at the Crossroads of Gender / Deniz Kandiyoti 277

13 A Table in Two Hands / Ayse Simsek Caglar 294

14 Negotiating Identities: Media Representations of Different Generations of Turkish Migrants in Germany / Lale Yalcin-Heckmann 308

Afterword: Recognising the Everyday / Martin Stokes 322.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813530814

0813530822

OCLC:

48474068